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This catalogue of charms inflamed my imagination, though it gave me no mental picture of a silver Wyandotte fowl, and I paid the money while the dealer crammed the chicks, squawking into my five-o'clock tea-basket. The afternoon session of the conference was most exciting, for we reached the subject of imported eggs, an industry that is assuming terrifying proportions.
I don't think the county would approve." Doris snapped her fingers with supreme contempt. "That for the county! What a snob you are!" "Am I?" said Hugh. "I didn't know." She nodded severely. "Do you mind moving your legs? I want to get at the tea-basket." "Don't mention it!" he said accommodatingly. "Are you going to give me tea now? How nice! You are looking awfully pretty to-day, do you know?
You remember Romeo's April oath: 'By yonder moon that tips with silver all these fruit-tree tops " They lunched in the station restaurant at Genoa, and there he bought the girl a basket of fruit. "A poor substitute for the tea you will be wanting presently," he explained. "You have no tea-basket with you? You will want one if you are going to live with Italians." "I never thought of it."
In two minutes he had opened up communications with a station Inspector of Police, made himself known, and secured the services of a constable to travel in Maynard's carriage. He did not wish to be seen again himself just at present. He yearned, too, for a first-class compartment and an ample tea-basket. Dawson's brain is a martyr to duty, but his stomach continually rises in rebellion.
The sun was deepening the gold of its lances, the bees were going home and the birds were flying past less often. Dickon and Mary were sitting on the grass, the tea-basket was re-packed ready to be taken back to the house, and Colin was lying against his cushions with his heavy locks pushed back from his forehead and his face looking quite a natural color.
Try these. The nurse handed them her cigarette-case. 'Don't take anything else, she commanded, and went away with the tea-basket. 'Good! grunted Conroy, between mouthfuls of tobacco. 'Better than nothing, said Miss Henschil; but for a while they felt ashamed, yet with the comfort of children punished together. 'Now, she whispered, 'who were you when you were a man?
The car, it appeared, was lodged in the court; and my brother's prophecies for the success of the picnic were more than fulfilled. Never was such a feast! I got out the gorgeous tea-basket, trembling with a guilty joy, and Jack washed the white and gold cups and plates at the pump between courses, I drying them with cotton waste, which the car generously provided.
Into the little dark square of the compartment window peered a confusion of lights, the myriad eyes of a great city. "Why, it's London!" cried Marjorie. "I'd lost all track of time. Hadn't you, Leonard?" "No," he answered laconically, slamming down the lid of the tea-basket. But Marjorie squeezed up against him and gave a little laugh. "Supposing it could be the same man, Leonard," she said.
His man had handed the lady out of her compartment, entered it when she left it, and was possessing himself of her littered vestiges while these speculations were afloat. Dressing-case, tea-basket, umbrellas, rugs, and what not, he filled his arms with them, handed them over to expectant porters, then smilingly showed their proprietress the carriage ridded.
"You say that as if it was the devil's kitchen." "There's probably first rate cooking in the devil's kitchen; I'm not so sure about the inns at Alais." "But it's arranged to picnic on the road to-day for the first time, you know. They put up such good things at Nîmes, and I was to make coffee in the tea-basket." "That's why I wanted to get on. Picnic country doesn't begin till after Alais.
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